So I'm going to move on and direct your attention to some anti-'tards who are doing their best to bring the real deal to the Internet. The website is called Stop Jenny McCarthy, and it's a thoughtful, considered response to the allegations that vaccines cause autism, and that autism can be "cured."

While my modus operandi tends to be pointing and laughing, these folks instead offer real information and resources pertaining to McCarthy's claims.

So a big "thank you" to Kylie Sturgess and Michael Rosch for their work on this effort. Vaccination is simply one of the biggest achievements in medical science, and the anti-vax crowd needs to be stopped. I suspect web sites like these will go farther in achieving this goal than snark.

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If you'd like a good book on the subject, I'd like to recommend "Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure" by Paul A. Offit. He's chief of Infectious Diseases and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. The book is available a number of places, including Amazon.

To modify a phrase by humorist Josh Billings (whom Mark Twain was known to quote): The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

I also recommend Michael Fumento's site, on multiple levels:Iraq -- he's been there, embedded, just like Michael YonAutism -- He's been writing about it for well over a decadeDiets -- esp. Atkins.AIDS -- ditto

Lots of other things, too. For amusement, stick your head into his "readers' letters", where he snarks at some of the bigger idiots, including the Atkins and Thiomeresol(sp?) defenders (note: many of his columns are published, so zero snark. He saves the snark for the letter-response sections)

He does not post constantly, but there's a lot of back material of interest.

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